CNN —Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales has refused to resign from his position as Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president following a week of fierce criticism after video showed him placing an unwanted kiss on a star player of Spain’s winning Women’s World Cup team.
“It was a spontaneous kiss … It was spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and with consent, which is the key.
This is the key to all of the criticism, of all of the campaign which has been mounted in this country: that it was without consent.
She’s the one who picked me up in her arms and she pulled me into her body.
While acknowledging he needed to apologize for his actions, Rubiales described calls for his resignation as a “witch hunt.”More to follow.
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